The NYC Mayor's Office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city, state, and federal laws within New York City. New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Mayor Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, and Brooklyn Borough President. The Adams’ Administration is leading the fight to make New York City’s economy stronger, reduce inequality, improve public safety, and build a stronger, healthier city that delivers for all New Yorkers. As an agency, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. For current job opportunities visit our careers page.

The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring that agencies that oversee the City’s social services programming are run compassionately, equitably and effectively, and that the City’s public health and healthcare delivery systems are delivering results for all New Yorkers. With a portfolio that amounts to approximately $22 billion, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services is focused on implementing bold efforts within and across City agencies and Mayor’s Offices. Agencies and Mayor’s Offices reporting to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services include: NYC Health + Hospitals, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Department of Social Services (Human Resources Administration and Department of Homeless Services), Administration for Children’s Services, Department for the Aging, Office of Immigrant Affairs, Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, Department of Veterans’ Services, Office of Community Mental Health, and the newly formed Office of Asylum Seeker Operations.

Working in the NYC Mayor’s Office at City Hall within the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the Senior Advisor will focus on both longer-term projects and day-to-day City Hall and agency management in the areas of public health, healthcare, human services, and community affairs/public engagement. Examples of current priority workstreams of focus for the Senior Advisor may include: Public health initiatives aimed at combatting chronic disease and racial disparities; Improving access to social services and benefits, especially for NYC’s diverse communities; Engagement of key stakeholder groups to inform the Administration’s Health and Human Services Strategy; Strategic planning with HHS agencies in response to current health and economic factors, and more.

The Senior Advisor will be responsible for the following:
- Coordination of special projects across the health and human services agencies to both respond to critical cross-portfolio challenges and drive a proactive agenda in health and human services; this includes proposing new initiatives and leading the management of that issue from start-finish.
- Interagency management, negotiation, and collaboration to optimize relationships and opportunities within their portfolio to create both short-and-long term collaborative agendas and negotiate across agencies, boards, commissions, private entities, and public sector partners to ensure the fulfillment of the City’s interests, priorities and policy objectives.
- In collaboration with other team members, manage the flow of information and requests between HHS agencies/offices and the Deputy Mayor’s Office. Typical activities include monitoring, reviewing, contributing to, and managing requests from elected officials, new policy proposals, public reporting, budget reviews, requests for agency participation in intergovernmental and public events.
- Support the Deputy Mayor’s public communication, including preparing materials for press announcements, speeches, media quotes, op-eds, and other engagements, in coordination with the Mayor’s Communications/Press Office.
- Vet requests from the Mayor’s senior staff for Deputy Mayor and HHS agency participation in meetings and events; manage both policy and logistical aspects of preparing the Deputy Mayor and other leadership for participation in meetings and events.
- Ensure robust reporting, tracking, risk identification and management, and appropriate synthesis of issues for the Deputy Mayor and other City Hall leadership.
- Perform policy research, policy analysis, and policy implementation/metric tracking.
- Perform project management to see initiatives remain on track, report progress to the Deputy Mayor and other senior leaders throughout the process including making written and verbal presentations to provide timely updates/answer outstanding questions.
- Liaise and partner with key units within the Mayor’s Office such as Intergovernmental Affairs, Community Affairs Unit, the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, and Communications, among others.

The City of New York Office of the Mayor’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full-time roles and exceptional benefits. Our cash compensation range for this role is $125,000-$135,000.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two (2) years of responsible full-time paid experience in one or more of the fields of social service, psychology, public relations, urban planning, program evaluation, budget administration or financial administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial
psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field.

2. A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to “1” above. However, all candidates must possess at least one year of the experience described in “1” above.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.